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Learn more: FWF Plays a Leading Role in Almost all Fields of Open Access

While the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has so far primarily focused on Open Access to publications, the principle of openness will now be extended to research data as part of a long-term Open Science strategy.

Learn more: 41 Full Proposals to the Pilot "Open Research Data" (ORD) Submitted

- The Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century
- 83% of peer-reviewed publications resulting from FWF projects are Open Access
- Open Library of Humanities (OLH) in Vienna on 5 July

Learn more: Open Science News June 2016

Learn more: Alternative Publication Models - Open Library of Humanities (OLH)

Learn more: Open Access News

OAPEN Foundation and an Austrian consortium have agreed to make OAPEN’s deposit service for OA books available to all Austria-based researchers.

Learn more: Austrian Consortium Joins OAPEN

The FWF invites eligible applicants to submit outline proposals (letter of interest) from 18. January onward.

Learn more: Pilot Programme “Open Research Data”

Supported by the Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Entwicklung the FWF launches a pilot programme for projects focusing on Open Research Data (ORD) and invites eligible applicants to submit outline proposals (letter of interest) from mid-January 2016 onward.

Learn more: Pilot Programme “Open Research Data”

Learn more: New ways of an open Science Communication

As announced in December 2014, the Austrian Science Fund FWF will mandate the use of an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) as part of its grant application process.

Learn more: FWF mandates ORCID for applications as of 2016

By an agreement of the Austrian Academic Library Consortium KEMÖ and the Austrian Science Fund FWF with the academic publisher Springer, researchers from Austria have now the option of publishing their research open access in more than 1,600 journals without article processing charges. That is the second deal of this kind worldwide and accelerates the transformation to Open Access in academic publishing.

Learn more: Austrian Open Access Agreement with Publisher Springer

Learn more: Open Access News

Quality Open Access Market (QOAM) is an assessment tool for researchers to evaluate more than 17.000 open access journals incl. conventional journals with an open access option.

Learn more: New tool for assessing academic journals

In 2013 the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has commissioned a survey among the Austrian scientific community.Questions concerning Open Access were also part of the survey.

Learn more: High need for Open Access